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What's it like for a teacher's son from Normal, Ill., to deal with the notorious strongmen of Africa? "I've been doing the same thing for 50 years," he says with a shrug. "Just a bigger scale. Same damn thing." Having picked up a degree in geological engineering from the University of Oklahoma, Van Dyke got his start in the dusty fields of Wichita Falls, Texas, in 1951. His mentor, wildcatter S.D. Johnson, taught him the basics: find a farmer with promising land and get him to lease you the rights, then find an oil company willing...
...Hogwarts principal Dumbledore, Michael Gambon has a ponderous, aristocratic humanism. Gary Oldman?s Sirius, the human-canine from the third film, has a bright cameo as a face in the fireplace. The movie strikes black gold with Alistair ?Mad-Eye? Moody, Hogwarts? new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. Played by Brendan Gleeson with a swagger and spume not seen since Robert Newton?s Long John Silver (another charming dastard), Mad-Eye has a globular left orb that stares skeptically, maniacally, at all it surveys. He seems both amiable and deranged, as when he gestures to a steamer trunk whose...
...never been in a gang.” Few would call him a “conscious” rapper, and he has no problem with that. “I guess to be [a conscious rapper] is to try and be a teacher or to be positive,” he says. “But those artists don’t sell because people don’t want to be taught. People want to have a good time.”‘BEST THING I’VE DONE’Without a doubt...
...that tender age, little Jonathan A. Cohler ’88 had already traded in Big Bird for the big, bad world of the clarinet. Childhood talent matured into adult honors. Prior to attending Harvard, Cohler honed his musical skills just around the corner, under teacher Pasquale Cardillo, the principal clarinetist of the Boston Pops. In his first year at Harvard, Cohler won a fellowship from the world-renowned Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, becoming its youngest member. “Harvard was an ideal environment for me,” Cohler recalls in an interview. “It gave...
...imposing white mountain range in the background and a foreground shrouded in uneven shadow as the sun sets. There’s the photographer’s most famous image, “Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941,” in which he does what a photography teacher would almost certainly advise against, leaving the entire top half of the picture black. The tiny full moon sits on that border with darkness, watching over the little village of Hernandez bathed in an unearthly light.But these easily-recognizable prints can be found in art galleries around Boston. What is unique...